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Rezoning

The North Fair Oaks Community Plan incorporates a broad range of policies intended to meet the community’s needs and goals. A key component of the Plan is changes to allowed land use and development in specifically designated areas of the community. In order to implement these revised land use regulations, the zoning regulations for these areas must also be revised. The rezonings are proceeding in four phases. The first phase of the rezoning, along Middlefield Road between First and 8th Avenues, was completed and adopted by the Board of Supervisors in 2015. The second phase, along El Camino Real and 5th Avenue, was adopted in 2017. The County is now working on the next two phases. Phase 2B includes the area along Middlefield between First Avenue and Douglas, and nearby streets, and Phase 3 is the industrial areas between Fair Oaks Avenue and Bay Road and along a portion of Edison Avenue.

The San Mateo County Board of Supervisors adopted an ordinance on July 23, 2019:

Amending the zoning text and map to create a new CMU-3 (Commercial Mixed Use) Zoning District, substantially amending the existing M-1/NFO and M-1/Edison/NFO Zoning Districts, rezoning various areas of North Fair Oaks to the new and modified zoning districts, and amending the existing Chapter 29, “Design Standards and Site Development Permit,” of the Zoning Regulations (the Ordinance).

The Ordinance applies to the areas of North Fair Oaks currently zoned for commercial and industrial uses areas along Middlefield Road, around Redwood Junction, along Edison Way, and around Spring Street and Bay Road.

Phase 3 rezones the two industrial areas of North Fair Oaks—the area north of Fair Oaks Avenue and west of 2nd Avenue, and the area between Edison Way and the Southern Pacific Railroad tracks—as Industrial Mixed-Use.... ViewView Rezoning Phase 3 - Industrial Mixed Use

Zoning Regulations

Phases 2b and 3 are complete. The final three zoning ordinances pursuant to these phases, implementing the North Fair Oaks Community Plan, were adopted by the County Board of Supervisors on July 23, 2019, and took effect on August 23, 2019. View the adopted zoning regulations:

See materials related to the Board of Supervisors’ consideration and adoption of the ordinances.

Public Outreach

As part of the rezoning process, the County is working with residents and other stakeholders through an outreach process to draft, refine, adopt and implement the revised zoning. See the following for a timeline of the outreach process, as well information on past and upcoming community meetings: